Israel’s airstrikes in the south of the country have damaged ancient Roman ruins, mosques, schools and churches.
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Women were often jailed for their association with anti-Franco male relatives. Behind bars, they suffered mental and physical torture.
The movement to protect the long-obscured sites allows communities to reckon with painful histories through healing, remembrance and ancestral connection.
Human society has marked collective dead for millennia. Such monuments have changed with the evolving nature of conflict, something Ukraine is now weighing.
The World Heritage listing raises timely questions, such as whether we might see nominations for sites from Australia’s own genocidal past.
Spain has made it a punishable offence to praise the regime of General Franco.
At historic sites across the South, you’ll often find a white woman, dressed in Colonial clothes, cooking in a big house kitchen. That’s a role that was usually done by enslaved Africans.
The 2020 US election could set a record for ugliness and division. Two previous elections provide important context for what that division can mean.
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William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
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Visiting Fellow in History, Anglia Ruskin University
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Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
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Associate professor, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor of Geography, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Adjunct Professor in Museum Studies and Bioarchaeology, College of Charleston
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Associate Professor of Spanish, Kennesaw State University
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Doctoral Researcher, Refugee Cultural Heritage and Connected Rights Protection | Affiliate, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law | Associate, Australian Human Rights Institute, UNSW